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REELING MACHINE. APPLICATION man FEB-4.1915.

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REELING MACHINE.

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REELING-MAGHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedSept. 9, 1919.

Application filed February a, 1915. Seria1 No.6,028.

dent of Detroit, county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Reeling Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. i

This invention relates to reeling devices, more particularly to devices for reeling rubber treated strips of bias cut fabric for use in the manufacture of tires.

An object of the present invention is to provide a reeling machine embodying in combination with a support for the fabric and a reel, a marker which draws a center line on the fabric as it passes from the support to the reel, thereby locating the center of the fabric to guide the tire maker in centralizing the fabric on the carcass in building a tire.

A further object of the invention is to provide on the support novel guides which may be simultaneously and uniformly moved toward or away from each other to receive different widths of fabric and centralize the same with respect to the marker.

The invention will be readily understood from the following description taken in con nection with the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a reeling machine embodying my improvements;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawing in which like characters of reference designate similar parts, the reeling machine is shown to comprise a table 10 to the legs 11 at one end of which is mounted a spindle 12 that is driven by a chain drive 13 from a shaft 14 which in the present embodiment is rotated by means of a hand wheel 15, although it may, be power driven, as desired. The

spindle 12 has a key way 16 in which is held .a key 17 having a retaining tooth at one end which removably secures a reel 18 to the spindle. This key can be forced iri ward to allow the reel when full to be removed from the spindle.

The bias cut strips of rubber treated fabric 19 are manually spliced together on the table lOand then advanced to the reel 18 upon which it is spooled. A liner 20 of muslin or the like is wound on to the reel with the rubber treated fabric to separate and prevent the convolutions of the latter from sticking together. This liner passes from a supplyfl21 between tension bars 22 and over a r0112?) carried by the table below the reel, from thencepassing to the reel as shown in Fig. 1. a

The above described machine is of the usual and well known type, but forms part of the invention in couibination with the guides and marker for the fabric, which features willnow be described.

Slidablymounted on the table top are adjustable guides 24;, arranged in pairs, the guides of each pair being moved in unison toward or away fromeach other by means of respective feed screws 25 placed beneath the table and connected with the guides by screw threaded bearings or nuts 26 having upwardly extending arms 27, as indicated, the arms working in slots 28 across the table. The feed screw nearest the ends of the table has a hand wheel 29 by which it may be rotated, and is connected with the other feed screw by means of a chain drive 30, so that all four guides are moved in unison, the feed screws, of course, being right handed for one half their lengths, and being left handed for the other. These guides may be adjusted by rotation of the hand wheel to receive therebetween different widths of fabric and direct the same in centralized position with respect to a marker, on the Way to the reel.

The value of two pairs of guides is that splicing together of the lengths of fabric on thetable may be accomplished at a point between the pairs by hand rolling the bias ends of the lengths together in the usual manner. The gap between the pairs of guides permits the roller to be manually passed across the fabric from edge to edge without obstruction.

Above the end of the table is located a rotatable bar or rod 31 and upon the central point of this rod is fixed a marker 32 which has a rather sharp edge that presses upon the fabric as it passes over a roll 33 on the way to the reel, thus drawing a line which locates the center of the fabric to guide the carcass in building the tire. The marker 32 is pressed downward by a spiral spring 35 which is located at one end of the rod 31.

A pressure roll 34 is located on the table in advance of the first pair of guides and and holds the fabric against buckling.

From the above description it will be seen that I have provided a novel combination of a marker for drawing a center line on the fabric before it is reeled, and guides for receiving diflerent widths of fabric in advance of the marker and centralizing the same with respect to the marker.

What I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a reeling device, in combination, a support comprising a table over. which the material to be reeled passes a rotatable reel, a roll over which the material bends in its travel from the support to the reel, a marker pressed against the roll and forming a center line on the material as it passes over the roll, two sets of adjustable guide arms, each set including two arms lying on copies of this patent may the obtained for said table, and means for adjusting said arms simultaneously toward and away from one another.

2. A reeling device embodying a support for the material to be reeled, a rotatable reel, a marker on the support for forming a center line on the material as it passes to the reel, feed screws on the support each right handed for one half its length, and left handed for the other half, pairs of guides on the support having feed nut connections with respective feed screws, and means for rotating the feed screws simultaneously whereby the guides of each pair are moved uniformly in unison toward or away from each other for centralizing different widths of material with respect to the marker,

Signed at Detroit, Mich., this 19th day of January, 1915.

DE COURCY NEAL. Witnesses:

JOHN CARLsoN, J. H. SWIFT.

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